Boston Review
For General Operating Support
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/11/2016
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Overview
Boston Review, a bimonthly political and literary magazine founded in 1975, aims to foster public discussion and thus promote a more deliberative democracy by publishing both essays by experts and unbiased investigative reporting, together with select poetry, fiction, and visual art. The Review now hosts 1.5M readers online per annum. This grant will support the Review through two important transitions: shifting its focus from print to web to achieve greater growth in readership and impact; and modernizing its revenue model from traditional print to membership.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.bostonreview.net
Address
875 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 31, Cambridge, MA, 02139, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Boston Review, a bimonthly political and literary magazine founded in 1975, aims to foster public discussion and thus promote a more deliberative democracy by publishing both essays by experts and unbiased investigative reporting, together with select poetry, fiction, and visual art. By the 1990s, the magazine was committed to making all its content available for free online. Today it hosts more than 150,000 readers each month online plus another 30,000 who discuss its content via social media.
for general operating support
Boston Review is a magazine of ideas, independent and nonprofit, founded on the premise that addressing the most profound contemporary social and political challenges requires serious public discussion. They put a wide range of voices and views in dialogue on the web for free, without any ads or paywalls; in print four times a year; and through public events to foster the open and engaged exchange of ideas essential to a flourishing democracy.
for general operating support
Boston Review is a magazine of ideas, independent and nonprofit, founded on the premise that addressing the most profound contemporary social and political challenges requires serious public discussion. They put a wide range of voices and views in dialogue on the web for free without any ads or paywalls, in print four times a year, and through public events to foster the open and engaged exchange of ideas essential to a flourishing democracy.
